Everyday Life in Joseon-Era Korea
Subtitle: Economy and Society
Publisher: BRILL; Global Oriental; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789004261129
Subjects: Korea, civilization; Korea, social conditions; Korea, social life and customs; Korea, economic conditions
Description: This book shows how the momentous changes of the time transformed the lives of the common people. In twenty-three concise chapters, the book covers topics ranging from agriculture, commerce, and mining to education, marriage, and food culture. It examines how both the spread of Neo-Confucianism in the early Joseon period and its decline from the seventeenth century impacted economic and social life. The book also demonstrates that much of what is thought of as ancient Korean tradition actually developed in the Joseon period. Chapters in this book discuss how customs such as ancestor worship, the use of genealogies, and foods such as kimchi all originated or became widespread in this era.--